I’m wanting to set up my external Seagate drive with all my media on it to run a jellyfin server but I’m not sure which device to use. I’m thinking a raspberry pi but I’m not sure which one. From what I can tell from running the server on my laptop it is fairly CPU intensive for lower end systems
Edit: so general consensus seems to be, don’t use a pi, it’s not powerful enough
Jellyfin server itself isn’t all that intensive. My “server” is running on a 13y/o low-end desktop CPU (Pentium E5800, in case you’re curious). However, if you noticed your laptop struggling, as others have pointed out, that’s probably when it was transcoding. While I want eventually update my server with transcoding hardware, I just disabled transcoding completely for now, and it’s pretty workable.
What’s the point of transcoding for local serving?
To be fair, that laptop is running windows in all its bloated glory and that probably didn’t help